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THjoQMA's RYAN, or sc oiTQBAR, CALIFORNIA.

- .Leners Patent No. 93,483, dated August. 1o, 1869.

IMPROVED PROCESS FOR FORMING T HEiHUl'B AND SPOKES I WROUG-HT-IRQN WHEELS. y

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and vmak-ing part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern.:

Be it known that I, THoMA's RYAN, of Scott Bar,.

in the county of Siskiyou, and State of California,

'have invented a new and useful yImprovement in the Method of Making Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a'full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specifi.- cation.

This invention consists in a useful and improved method of making wheels of carriages and of all Adescriptionsof vehicles, and all descriptions of' spoked wheels, whereby they are made much more durable than wheels constructed in the ordinary manner.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 represents a side view of 'a wheel constructed according to my invention.

Figures 2 and 3 are views in red color, showing-the method of forging the hub and spokes from the piece of iron.

parts.

A is the hub, and B represents the spokes of the wheel. C is the tire.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding In carrying out my invention, I employ a pieee .oi`- iron of sucient size, shaped much like that used -for 'a horseshoe. I Hatten the piece down at the ends (leaving shoulders for the hub in the middle) to the thickness required for the width of thespokes, andIy then split the iron into live (more or less) strips at each end for the spokes.

On the ends of the spokes so formed, I form shoulders for the tire or rim of the wheel. The spokes are then spread and placed in proper position.

The spokes and the hub are nished up in a workman-'like manner, the rim of the wheel is attached, and the wheel is complete.

By this method of forming the wheel, the expense is not increased, while the Wheel is indestructible.

Having thusdescribed my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- Constructing the hubs and spokes of wheels of a W. I. WILLIAMS, G. L. WILLARD. 

